RE: 1.1.8: the read command in bash does not behaive the same as in ksh

["Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>]

You've answered your own question.  ksh does what you want. bash doesn't
bash doesn't work that way on other unix systems either. This has nothing
to do with cygwin. The solution is to use ksh as your shell. (No, I don't
know
where to get it.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Sergio Del Rio [mailto:sdelrio@home.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 2:26 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: 1.1.8: the read command in bash does not behaive the same as in ksh



This was encountered with cygwin v1.1.8 under Windows 2000 Professional.

 

The following script executes fine on other unix systems but not with cygwin
and I was wondering how to get around this problem:

 

echo one two three | read v1 v2 v3

echo "v1 = ${v1}"

echo "v2 = ${v2}"

echo "v3 = ${v3}"

 

It seems that the variables are not set at all when this is done with
cygwin.

 

I have this kind of code in many places and would really appreciate an
answer.

 

Thanks!

 

Regards,

Sergio Del Rio

Templates 4 Business Inc.

Cell: (604) 788-3604

Fax: (604) 582-7877

 


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